J. Alan Kahn — President of Barnes & Noble Publishing Group at Barnes & Noble

Mr. J. Alan Kahn has been the President of Barnes & Noble Publishing Group since February 2002 and is a veteran of the bookselling and publishing industries for over thirty years. Previously, Mr. Kahn served as Chief Operating Officer of Barnes & Noble Inc., from December 1997 to February 2002. He served as Chief Executive Officer Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. from 1995 to 1997 and also served as its Chief Operating Officer from 1988 to 1995 and as its President since 1988. He served as an Executive Vice President of B&N Trade and Mail Order from 1978 to 1988. He joined Barnes & Noble, Inc. in 1978 as Executive Vice President. In 1971, Mr. Kahn joined B. Dalton Booksellers Inc., the then Dayton Hudson-owned bookstore chain, as vice president of merchandising from 1971 to 1978 and was a member of the management team that built B. Dalton into the most widely respected, dominant force in bookselling in the 1970s. He also served as the President of Marboro Books and Editor-n-chief of the trade division of Harcourt Brace Publishers. Mr. Kahn began his career on the West Coast, in a senior merchandising position at the highly regarded Pickwick Bookshops, one of the first large store chains of bookstores in the United States. Mr. Kahn lives with his wife and son in Manhattan.